We are sorry you feel this way. We want to be clear that we discussed all available options to us as well as discussed our legal options at length with our counsel. Our two legal counsel both said that taking legal action was not advisable, nor practical.

So that left us with two options:

1) Allow him to consider this a prepayment and continue working, with any future payments clearly out of the question. Within this option was removing his ability to have write access to the GitHub repositories. The code he writes is also reviewed extensively to ensure no security concerns are present.

2) Tell Jon we don't want him to code for us anymore.

Regardless of whether we chose option #2, the code is all open source and he could still write code and submit it for review. Indeed, this is essentially what he did. That code was reviewed for security purposes and then either rejected or denied. This is standard practice for all code implemented anyway: at least two pairs of eyes must review extensively before accepting.

Wallets:

How do I receive my BTCP?

For security, we recommend everyone moves their ZCL and/or BTC to a new address before using the private key for the address it was in for the fork. For now, SegWit BTC balances cannot be claimed. They should be available soon, please keep an eye out for it.

If you are using a multi-signature wallet, these will not apply to you. Go to the bottom.

We know that the community has a lot of questions after recent events. Therefore, we have decided to host an AMA with the BTCP Contribution team on April 30 at 8 pm EST. People from the team joining are:

Jacob Brutman

Giuseppe Stuto

JC

Chris Sulmone

Dan Farina

Dan Cohen

Jamie Owens

Michael Otis

Don Shin

There is only one rule: keep the questions civil and professional. This thread will be locked until we release our 2018 development roadmap so that users have a chance to digest it prior to asking questions.

Overall, I'm very unimpressed with this project. I'm more than prepared to be ignored (as usual) and cop a beat down from the fanatic BTCP zealots, but I'm happy to ask the hard questions that are actually valuable to progress.

Edit - BONUS QUESTIONS

Why is a chemist the Operations Lead? What relevance does the field of chemistry have to cryptocurrency?

Why is Didi Taihuttu ("the man who (very publicly) sold his house for Bitcoin") considered a part of the team, labelled as a "Privacy Evangelist"? All he has done is re/tweet about BTCP a couple of times.

Are you aware that a part of your legal counsel have received tax delinquency notices this year?

“When are we going to see some substance from the team, rather than a constant stream of derivative work?”

“Everything else on the roadmap comes from the rebasing, nothing is new, it's just incorporating features from: Bitcoin (SegWit, LN, Dandelion)”

LN is very much still in development - it’s by no means a done deal

Dandelion is just a proposal on paper right now - Grin/MimbleWimble has an implementation but it is not running live yet

Integrating either of these is a lot more work than cherry-picking commits out of a git repository. For that matter the rebase is a tremendous amount of work as well - there’s a reason that other bitcoin derivatives don’t do this and fall years behind. It’s very challenging to do this correctly and completely. We think this will bring a tremendous amount of utility to the protocol and are excited for others to use it as well.

A lot of the value in this space come from hard work and making user experiences better - we think we’re doing that by integrating a bunch of things that live in disparate protocols. There’s lots of room for innovation outside of advances in fundamental cryptography.

“Again, what was the actual need to add the BTC chain? Marketing? Brand recognition?”

This we owe to our founder. We believe his goal was to increase awareness of privacy related technologies and one way to do that is by involving your largest user base (bitcoin).

Any plans to directly call out Chainalysis and other privacy attacking companies while promoting our coin? (need to get the adversarial juices flowing / helps embed our utility case in every newcomer's mind.)